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‘Public service in this period included personal services such as labor on the fortifications being built at the isthmus of Corinth and the quartering and provisioning of dragoons and their mounts in the villages in the winter months.’

‘I doubt that they thought the Third Amendment (limits on quartering soldiers) was more important than the Sixth (which includes the trial by jury).’

‘In November, English recruiting officers appeared in Boston, and the Assembly and the Boston magistrates forbade any recruiting or any quartering of troops in the town.’

‘The U.S. Constitution specifically prohibited the European practice of quartering soldiers in private homes.’

‘With opportunities for economic growth and municipal development always a priority, the commissioners wished to prove to the military that Mobile was a suitable location for quartering and training troops.’

‘In 1703 the provveditore of New Navarino noted that he would raise these from those villages not currently contributing to the quartering of dragoons.’

‘Webster's dictionary defines logistics as ‘the branch of military science having to do with moving, supplying and quartering troops.’’

‘I've only heard rumors of you, Amseth, and was delightfully shocked to see you quartering here, in my mistress' home.’

‘In 1776, the American colonials indicted the king ‘for quartering large bodies of armed troops among us.’’

‘It also instigated the quartering of refugees near their homeland, making it increasingly impossible for those needing protection to lodge an asylum application in Germany.’

‘I certainly am glad that the US Constitution forbids quartering of soldiers in my house.’

‘Following extant written sources, this process has been seen in relation to the quartering of troops that occurred during the war between the Byzantines and the Goths, or simply as the result of occupation by squatters.’

3[mass noun]The action of dividing something into four parts.

‘It was de-stoning and quartering the dates that took so long.’

‘They have proven themselves incorrigible; drawing and quartering would be too good for them.’

‘The Scottish business community is ecstatic because, after being hanged and drawn, its quartering has been postponed for a twelvemonth.’

‘These novelists celebrated not just the pleasures of the table but also the joy of the hunt, the quartering and smoking of great sides of game.’

‘It was then that I started developing my ideas on the reintroduction of hanging, drawing and quartering for political crimes against the people.’

‘Book now for your tickets to the hanging, drawing and quartering.’

‘Nearly all the 1,300 prisoners were undoubtedly guilty of treason, for which the sentence was death by hanging, disembowelling, and quartering.’

‘As Sir Benjamin told Parliament, this was gender inequality, for men convicted of the same offenses were no longer subject to drawing and quartering and ‘women should not receive a more dreadful punishment than men’.’

‘In this case, dissection took the place of quartering; it was likewise viewed as a form of supplementary punishment, a further mark of infamy, inflicted on the criminal after death.’

‘Traditionally a cross was cut into the dough, which helped in the even baking of the bread and assisted in the quartering of the loaf afterwards.’

‘A purely spatial focus, they argue, is limiting because it encourages static conceptions of walling and quartering.’

‘No more burnings at the stake, no more drawing and quartering, but true freedom to worship.’

‘Both of these are big enough for quartering an elk or lopping off a ridge pole for your tent, yet they're sufficiently thin to do a good job of slicing bacon for the breakfast skillet.’